World Championships have just concluded and others are yet to start and the Audi MedCup Circuit has been in Barcelona.

The Class 40 World Championships are over for another year, the PWA 'masters' are in Sotavento for the Fuerteventura Grand Slam, the Audi Melges Gold Cup has reached its climax, and we have galeries of images by Carlo Borlenghi from Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week.

But of course there was so much more happening last week, so please read our latest newsletter.

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18ft Skiff German Grand Prix - Heavy weather takes its toll on fleet Frank Quealey, A steady 16-knot breeze, increasing to 18 knots, with gusts between 19-22 knots, made it essential for each team to use the small rig. Norbert Peter, skipper of German skiff Magic Marine, said: 'Going upwind was like riding a wild mustang and downwind a mixture of huge jumps and nosedives. Nearly everybody succeeded today in nosedives'.... [more]Share this story

Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup - Reggini conquers all Joy Dunigan, Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup - Despite an early 9:30 start, only one race would be possible on the final day of the inaugural Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup. With the overall victory in the balance, and tight grouping among numerous boats further down the standings, it would be an exciting one.... [more]Share this story

Class40 World Championship winner decided Grand Pavois Organisation, The Class40 World Championship winner has been decided. Five races including two coastal courses took place on the waters of Gijon during this championship. Mistral Loisirs-Pôle Santé Elior won today's race.... [more]Share this story

Governor's Cup win to defending Champions from New Zealand Nancy Mellon, For the final day of one of the best Governor's Cups ever, it was another cool, overcast day with light, erratic breeze. In the semi-finals, the first team with two wins moved on to the Finals. The final races between last year's defending champion team from Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron of William Tiller, Harry Thurston and Shaun Mason, and the almost unbeaten team of Chris Segerblom, Connor... [more]Share this story

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Albeau dominates day two PWA/Paul Griffiths, Albeau annihilates the world's fastest fleet in Fuerteventura with an awesome display of skill, determination, and absolute domination, to claim a perfect score.... [more]Share this story

SB3 World Championships - 3 Sad Old Blokes not so sad Katie Ashworth, SB3 World Championships. 32 boats in the Gold Fleet did not react to the Tango flag and continued to sail the course leaving them outside the 15 minute time limit for the Championship and as a result added a 'Did Not Finish' (DNF) results to their score sheet.... [more]Share this story

International Laser sailors competing in Oz -PSA Summer Transport Deal Trevor Griffiths, With a well established Laser racing circuit and in the lead up to the ISAF Sailing World Championship in Perth with upcoming test events, the Australian Laser builder Performance SailCraft Australasia freight offer will make the the appeal of trip down under even greater.... [more]Share this story

European Laser Standard Championship - Final day shakeup Sail-World.com, Laser Standard European Championship final day. Two more races were completed on the last day of racing and big changes happened on the leader board as a result.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup - Team Artemis digs in for impressive win Paul Cayard and Sander van der Borch, Team Artemis skipper Paul Cayard reflects on the final day of racing at the Audi MedCup. Sander van der Borch provides the great images: 'The breeze was late to fill so we knew it would be just one race. We knew it was a 'who beats who' with Emirates Team New Zealand, as they were just one point behind us. It was for all the marbles.'... [more]Share this story

Travemuende Week - Trave sailing arena packed with spectators Andreas Kling, 121th Travemuende Week - Several thousand people followed the first races on the new Trave sailing arena on the first weekend of the 121st Travemuende Week. After the official race program on the Bay of Luebeck was finished, the fast Tornado catamarans gave an exciting performance in front of a large audience. 'Sailing at its very best', was the unanimous verdict of spectators and officials.... [more]Share this story

Laser Radial World, Day 6 - Champions crowned Sue Pelling, Laser Radial World Youth Championship - After a highly charged day's racing on the Clyde in some of the trickiest conditions of the week, Giovanni Coccoluto (ITL) and Erika Reineke (USA) have been crowned the new Laser Radial World Youth Champions.... [more]Share this story

America's Cup television trials conclude with bang Tim Jeffery, A strong sea breeze on the final day of the America's Cup television trials concluded what has widely been regarded as a highly successful evaluation. Over the past four days two high-performance monohulls and multihulls have been loaded with a plethora of cameras and microphones and put through match racing maneuvers to help find new camera angles and test surround sound format.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup: Emirates Team NZ retains overall lead after Barcelona Warren Douglas, Artemis has won the Camper MedCup regatta at Barcelona, with a two-point margin over Emirates Team New Zealand. Only one race of the two scheduled was sailed on the final day. Light conditions delayed the start until 2.47pm and there was no time for the second.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup: superb sailing performance determines Barcelona winner Audi MedCup Media, Artemis led the TP52 section of the regatta, by a single point, going into the one and only race of the final day. Soon after the start of the race, the odds looked suddenly to be stacked against an Artemis regatta win when they picked the wrong side of the first beat and rounded the top mark in eighth place, with their main rivals Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) in second.... [more]Share this story

Letter from the Defenderland: How the America's Cup could be run Dick Enersen, Dick Enersen shares his perspective of the latest happening in the America's Cup world: 'I have written that it will be very difficult to conduct an old school America's Cup on San Francisco Bay and, frankly, nothing has changed on the Bay to alter that thought, since the tides still rip, container ships, tankers and ferries still come and go, and it's not as big, or as deep, as it looks.... [more]Share this story

Internet Images Rules for Events, Sponsors and Event Photographers Brendan Maxwell - TetraMedia, Sailing is one of those sports which is much more followed on the Internet, than in magazines, newspapers or on television. It is therefore vital that marine events and marine industry professionals pay careful attention to the needs of Internet consumers.... [more]Share this story

GP42 class adopt improvements for 2011 ORC Press, The International GP42 Association announces today several innovations to the class rules that for the 2011 season and beyond will reduce operating costs while not compromising on the high-performance nature of the world's fastest offshore-capable 42-footer. These include some structural changes to the boat as well as new limits on crew, sails, and outside assistance.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup - Barcelona - Cayard reports a tricky day for Artemis Paul Cayard and Sander van der Borch, Cayard reports: Another solid day for Artemis with scores of 1, 5, 1 on a very tricky day here in the Med. A light seabreeze filled in at noon and the first two races were sailed in 11-13 knots from the southeast. The first race went really well as we led from start to finish. We pulled a bit of a rabbit out of the hat on the last run... [more]Share this story

Tour de France à la Voile Nouvelle-Caledonie wins Fabienne Morin, Tour de France à la Voile 2010 - The two last races of the Tour de France à la Voile which ended today in La Seyne sur Mer did bring some changes to the overall ranking, but not to the top three. After yesterday's cancellation nothing but a miracle could have prevent Bertrand Pace, skipper of Nouvelle Caledonie from winning a seventh title.... [more]Share this story

Platu 25 World Championship Modus Vivendi 3Alfa wins in 2010 Platu Worlds 2010, Kostas Karageorgiou's Modus Vivendi-3Alfa gets the title with one race to go and with no less than a 17 points lead on the second placed and 21 on the third.... [more]Share this story

Class 40' World Championship 2010 - The Spanish rule in Gijon Pierrick Garenne, Concise 2, (GBR), wins two races but Tales, (ESP), twice second then first on the third race, takes the lead. In the general ranking the Spanish team is leader tonight, follwed by Mistral Loisir-Pôle Santé Elior at the second place, and Concise 2 and Destination Dunkerque placed equal. Needless to say that tomorrow will be a very interesting day.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup: Artemis bounces back on Day 4 at Barcelona Audi MedCup Media, After an uncharacteristically disappointing regatta in Marseille last month, finishing eighth, Paul Cayard and the crew of Torbjorn Tornqvist's Swedish flagged Artemis have bounced right back ahead on the penultimate day of the Camper Regatta – Conde de Godó Trophy... [more]Share this story

Laser Radial Youth Worlds Day 5 - American and Italian go for gold Sue Pelling, Laser Radial World Youth Championship 2010 Day 5 (Largs, Scotland, Saturday 24 July) With 12-13kts of breeze kicking in from the south this morning, the conditions on the Clyde for the penultimate day of the Laser Radial World Youth Championship, could not have been better.... [more]Share this story

European Laser Standard Youth Championship: Eifion Mon still in charge Gdynia Sailing Days, With the rain, in the wind up to 18 knots and unpleasant waves we had first day of finals of European Laser Standard Youth Championship & Trophy 2010... [more]Share this story

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam – Registration Day PWA/Paul Griffiths, The scene is set for five days of world class racing, as sixty-three men, including many past and present world champions, sign up to battle round the buoys off the white sands of Sotavento... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup - Barcelona - Cayard reports for Artemis Paul Cayard and Sander van der Borch, Quantum who led going into the day had a 1, 11, 1 today. Emirates Team New Zealand had scores of 3, 1, 2 and are now leading. Artemis is second, 5 point backs and Quantum is third, 1 point behind us.... [more]Share this story

Mundial 40' Gijon, Class40 World Championship Coastal race Veronique Largeau, An 18-mile downwind leg took the fleet to Lastres and Thierry Bouchard on Mistral Loisirs-Pôle Santé Elior took the lead, Marie Toit-Caen La Mer was second and Destination Dunkerque third.... [more]Share this story

SAP 505 World Championships, Denmark, 24 July to 5 August Preview Dansk Sejlunion, SAP 505 World Championships - Predicting a winner from a fleet as tough as the 505 fleet is never easy, especially when the entry has climbed to more than 120 teams from 11 different nations... [more]Share this story

Platu 25 World championship - Changing places Platu 25 Worlds, The Platu 25 World championship, organized by Real Club de Regatas de Alicante is approaching its final stage and it's doing it in grand style with emotion, spectacular racing and an ever changing ranking.... [more]Share this story

SB3 World Championships 2010 - GBR sailors dominate Gold Fleet Katie Ashworth, For races 10, 11 and 12 of the Volvo Laser SB3 World Championships the Gold Fleet moved to the winder Bravo Course underneath the Riva cliffs. Both South African entries to the event lie in the top 10 leading into the final day of racing.... [more]Share this story

Laser Radial World Youth Championship - wind at last Sue Pelling, Laser Radial World Youth Championship 17-25 July 2010, Largs, Scotland -Day 4: Sparkling day on Clyde as qualifying series comes to a close... [more]Share this story

World & European Championships Sailing - Podium determined by wind Diana Bogaards, On the final day, Friday July 23, a lack of wind determined the podium positions of the World & European Championships Sailing 2010 in Lelystad/Netherlands. The breeze did not want to fill in.... [more]Share this story

F16 Euro Challenge win to young Australian team www.2Bsailing.eu, Lisa Darmanin and her skipper cousin Jason Waterhouse have raced to success on Lake Como in Italy, holding off a top-class fleet, including two Olympic sailors and some of the rising stars of multi-hull racing to claim the Euro F16 crown.... [more]Share this story

Volvo Ocean Race: Camper announce build, crew and workup for VOR70 Warren Douglas, CAMPER, in association with Emirates Team New Zealand have made some key announcements in their project for the Volvo Ocean Race Construction of the VO70 yacht will start in the first week of August. Crew selection is also well advanced and CAMPER said today that experienced Spanish round-the-world yachtsman Roberto Bermudez de Castro has signed on.... [more]Share this story

European Laser Standard Youth Championship - No sailing today European Laser Standard Youths, 124 sailors from 26 countries were on water earlier and twice today for the European Laser Standard Youth Championship & Trophy 2010. Conditions were too bad to sail even one race.... [more]Share this story

Laser Radial Youth World Championship - Consistency pays Ellie Williamson, The wind arrived on the Clyde a little later than predicted today causing yet another long postponement at the Laser Radial Youth World Championship.... [more]Share this story

Platu 25 2010 Worlds - Modus Vivendi-3Alfa holds strong Platu 25 Worlds, The day opens with the disqualifying of Bribón-Movistar after the Jury decision following a protest with the Swiss team Aranis.... [more]Share this story

Governor' s Cup 2010 - Round Robin completed Nancy Mellon, Day two of racing included completion of the first round robin. The wind was light, the temperature mild with overcast most of the day, but the racers were able to complete thirty-six matches in time to return to participate in the BeerCan racing in big boats in the evening.... [more]Share this story

A Finn for Africa Robert Deaves, For the first time in nearly 25 years, competitive Finns are now available in South Africa, a country with a long and proud history in Finn sailing.... [more]Share this story

Laser Radial Youth World Championships - The wind has arrived Sue Pelling, Laser Radial Youth World Championships. The wind arrived on the Clyde a little later than predicted today causing yet another long postponement, but thankfully a light south-westerly made its way up towards the race course area. After today's racing, a pattern is clearly starting to establish itself but there is one day of qualifying races remaining so it is still ‘early days'.... [more]Share this story

World & European Championships Sailing 2010 Diana Bogaards, It is a close battle for podium positions at the World & European Championships Sailing 2010 in Lelystad/Netherlands. The final series in the gold and silver fleet of the 2010 Splash Europeans commenced.... [more]Share this story

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam – Event Preview PWA/Paul Griffiths, This year's Fuerteventura Grand Slam will run from the 23rd of July through to the second of August. Currently slalom's archrivals, Bjorn Dunkerbeck (Starboard, Severne) and Antoine Albeau (JP, NeilPryde) are neck-and-neck with an event win and a second place a piece.... [more]Share this story

OK Dinghy European Championship preview Robert Deaves, With the highest entry for more than 20 years, the OK Dinghy European Championship in Medemblik, Netherlands next week is set to be the highlight of the year for many sailors.... [more]Share this story

ISAF Match Race Rankings - 21 July 2010 ISAF Media Unit, The leaders of the current ISAF World Match Race Rankings remain unchanged but the chasing pack are applying pressure and closing the gap. Current Open World Match Race Champion Adam Minoprio (NZL) has had his lead narrowed as has Lucy Macgregor (GBR) in the Women's Rankings.... [more]Share this story

Round Britain and Ireland 2010 - Crew selected for BKA bid Ellie Williamson, Eleven of the British Keelboat Academy's young keelboat sailors are celebrating after earning their call-up for this year's Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race as the crew of the BKA-run TP52 John Merricks II.... [more]Share this story

Audi MedCup Circuit - Quantum Racing shows the way Audi MedCup Circuit, Quantum Racing lead the TP52 Series after the first day of racing, while Madrid - Caser Seguros' s perfect hat trick of wins sees them top the GP42 leaderboard.... [more]Share this story

Melges 24 World Championship 2010 - 84 entries, 17 nations Fiona Brown, Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship 2010- With anticipation building ahead of the 2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship, taking place in Estonia from the fourth - 12th August, eighty-four crews from seventeen nations are very soon set to converge on the 1980 Moscow Olympic Regatta venue in Tallinn.... [more]Share this story

Audi Medi Cup 2010 - A more promising Day 2 Sabrina Molhart-Rogerson, Audi Medi Cup 2010 - There has been good breeze since early morning and most crews are predicting a three race day. The action starts at 1300hrs. Audi MedCup TV goes on air at 1250hrs.... [more]Share this story

European Laser Standard Youth Championship - Mon Eifion retains lead Gdynia Sailing Days, The third day of European Laser Standard Youth Championship & Trophy 2010, which takes place as a part of the Gdynia Sailing Days, is finished.... [more]Share this story

Melges 20 Gold Cup - Record fleet on Lake Garda Joy Dunigan, 37 boats from a record six nations will square off for the first day of the inaugural Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup in Malcesine, Italy. One first-time Melges 20 racer is British-born Singapore resident Andy Bird, who traveled with his crew nearly 7,000 miles to join the action in Malcesine on his chartered Audi Melges 20.... [more]Share this story

Platu 25 Worlds: Three races, three different Spanish winners Platú 25 Worlds, Greek team Modus Vivendi-3Alfa maintains leadership, despite retiring from the first race, while Mexillón de Galicia-Movistar and La Revoltosa occupy the second and third place respectively in the general provisional scoreboard... [more]Share this story

British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta - Ingrid Abery images Ingrid Abery images, Photographer Ingrid Abery has sent this gallery of images from the British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta, on the Solent.... [more]Share this story

British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta - A long day on water Justin Chisholm, Competition to be the first home was particularly keen amongst the bigger boats. The 1987 12 Metre, Italia, appeared to revel in today's conditions and having made a good start close to the Island shore was quickly able to tack and cross the fleet.... [more]Share this story

Whale dismasts yacht - investigation pending Sail-World Cruising, The advice to stay several hundred metres away from a whale took on new resonance after the latest incident in South African waters. The owners of a well known Cape Town Sailing Academy were dismasted this week by a whale who apparently didn't notice the yacht and breached virtually on top of them.... [more]Share this story

SB3 Worlds - Gold and Silver fleet finals begin Katie Ashworth, SB3 World Championships update. With last night's protests completed, the Gold and Silver Fleets were decided for the finals. A further 3 races were scheduled for each of the fleets today. All races were all completed taking the Championship race tally to 9.... [more]Share this story

34th America's Cup television trials begin tomorrow Tim Jeffery, America's Cup television evaluation kicks off tomorrow with a small army on hand to carry out a water-borne lab experiment the likes of which the 'Auld Mug' has never seen.... [more]Share this story

F16 Euro Challenge 2010 - Race Update Day 3 Darren Bundock, F16 Euro Challenge 2010 - Race Update Day 3. The first race of the day got underway with 8-9 knots of breeze and the majority of the fleet headed to the left hand side to get to the eastern shore.... [more]Share this story

Class40 World Championship D-1 before the Mundial 40' de Gijon 2010 Véronique Largeau, Jacques Fournier is a happy President of the Class40. He's happy for two reasons: he sees the Class40 is expanding and he sails with Jean-Edouard Criquioche on board the new Pogo40S2. Interview:... [more]Share this story

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